(1) to encourage and provide for instruction and training in such branches of learning as it may think fit, to make provision for research and to promote the advancement and dissemination of knowledge;
(2) to establish and develop specialised Research Centres, interdisciplinary centres or similar institutions for studies and to undertake research in tribal problems, rural development and marine biology;
(3) to organise specialised diploma, degree or post-graduate courses, as the case may be, in such subjects as Tribal languages, habitat and customs, rural administration, coastal salinity, forestry, floriculture, pesticides, wild life management, pisciculture, marine fishery and also in subjects like rural and urban planning, manpower planning, regional resources planning and development, ecology and environmental studies, agricultural and rural industries and marine resource development;
(4) to organise short courses at the post-Master of Arts or post- Master of Science stage for those who are otherwise suitable for teaching the non-traditional courses mentioned in clause (3);
(5) to make such academic studies as may contribute to the improvement of economic conditions and welfare of the people in general and the tribal people in particular;
(6) to establish, maintain or manage colleges, libraries, laboratories, museums and such other institutions as it may consider fit;
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(7) to recognise any college or institution as a constituent college or a professional college and to withdraw such recognition in respect of any such college or institution;
(8) to develop colleges imparting Honours courses under the direct supervision of the University with the ultimate object of developing such colleges as exclusive Honours colleges, i.e., colleges admitting Honours students only and providing only pass teaching for the subsidiary subjects of Honours students:
Provided that the provisions of this clause shall not debar other colleges from introducing both Honours and Pass courses;
(9) to affiliate to itself any college, institution or centre and to withdraw affiliation of such college, institution or centre;
(10) to institute degrees, titles, diplomas, certificates and other academic distinctions;
(11) to hold examinations and to confer degrees, titles, diplomas, certificates and other academic distinctions on persons who—
(a) shall, unless exempted therefrom in such manner as may be prescribed by Statutes, have pursued in an affiliated or constituent college or in the University or in an institution or centre recognized by the University such courses of study and shall have passed such examination of the University as may be prescribed, or
(b) shall have carried on research under such conditions as may be prescribed;
(12) to confer honorary degrees or other academic distinctions under such conditions as may be prescribed;
(13) to co-operate with other Universities and educational authorities in such manner and for such purposes as the University may determine;
(14) to institute and to make appointment to Professorship, Readership, Lectureship and other teaching posts required by the University;
(15) to institute and award fellowships, scholarships, exhibitions, prizes, medals and other honours and distinctions;
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(16) to prescribe, demand and receive fees, fines and other charges;
(17) to establish, maintain and manage hostels, halls and other places of residence for the students of the University and Teachers, officers and other employees and to recognize such hostels, halls and other places of residence and to withdraw recognition therefrom;
(18) to provide for the supervision and control of residence and discipline of students of the University and to make arrangements for promotion of their health and general welfare;
(19) to conduct, co-ordinate, regulate and control the postgraduate research work and teaching in the University, the constituent and affiliated colleges and the institutions recognized by the University;
(20) to prescribe the powers and duties of officers of the University;
(21) to provide for the inspection, or investigation into the affairs, of a college or an institution recognized by the University;
(22) to create and to make appointment to such administrative, clerical and other posts under the University as it may deem fit;
(23) to accept grants from the Central or any State Government or the University Grants Commission and with the approval of State Government from other sources;
(24) to raise loans or to accept loans from the Central or the State Government or the University Grants Commission and with the approval of State Government from other sources;
(25) to prescribe for colleges, other than Government colleges,—
(a) the constitution, powers and functions of their Governing Bodies;
(b) the terms and conditions of service of—
(i) Librarians, and
(ii) non-teaching staff;
(26) to make rules for Provident Fund for colleges;
(27) to prescribe for colleges rules for Teachers' Council;
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(28) to take over for a period of twelve months the management of any affiliated, constituent or professional college, institution or centre, other than a Government college or institution, in order to ensure that proper standard of teaching, training or instruction is maintained therein:
Provided that the University may, if it considers necessary so to do, extend such period so, however, that the aggregate period shall not exceed eighteen months;
(29) to dissolve the Governing Body of any affiliated, constituent or professional college or institution, other than a Government College, and, pending reconstitution of Governing Body thereof in such manner as may be prescribed, to appoint an Administrator or an ad hoc Governor Body:
Provided that re-constitution of the Governing Body shall be made within a period of twleve months from the date of dissolution:
Provided further that the University may, if it considers necessary so to do, extend such period so that the aggregate period shall not exceed eighteen months;
(30) to enter into contracts and agreements with the approval of the State Government:
(31) to acquire, hold and dispose of properties, moveable and immovable, for furthering any of the objects of the University;
(32) to make grants for the maintenance of the National Cadet Corps and the National Social Service;
(33) generally to do all such acts and things as may be necessary or desirable for, or incidental to, the advancement of the objects or purposes of the University.
5. (1) Save as otherwise provided in this Act, the powers of the University conferred by or under this Act shall not extend beyond the limit of any district referred to in clause (6) of section 2.
(2) Notwithstanding anything contained in sub-section (1), any college or institution situated beyond the limit of any district referred to in clause (6) of section 2 may, with the sanction of the State Government, apply to the University for affiliation and the University may, subject to such conditions and restrictions as it may with the approval of the State Government think fit to impose, admit the same to all the privileges of the University.
Jurisdiction of the University.
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Officers of the University.
The Chancellor.
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(3) Notwithstanding anything contained in any other law for the time being in force, with effect from such date as the State Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, appoint in this behalf (hereinafter in this section referred to as the said date)—
(a) such colleges existing on the said date within the limits of the district•referred to in clause (6) of section 2 as may be specified in the notification shall—
(i) be deemed to be affiliated to the University and continue to be so affiliated until the University otherwise directs;
and
(ii) cease to be affiliated to the University of Calcutta or any other University to which they may have been affiliated before the said date;
(h) any Teacher, Principal or member of the Governing Body of any such college holding, by virtue of his being such Teacher, Principal or member, any office in or under the University of Calcutta or any of the authorities of the said University shall cease to hold such office and the vacancy so caused shall be deemed to be a casual vacancy for the purposes of the Calcutta University Act, 1979;
(c) no college or institution situated within the local limits of the jurisdiction of the University, but not admitted to its privileges, shall be associated with or be admitted to the privileges of any other university except with the previous approval of the State Government.
6. The University may delegate such of its powers as it may deem expedient to any of the authorities constituted under section 16 or to any of its officers, and may, at any time, withdraw at its discretion any power so delegated.